Malcolm Jenkins Rips NFL's Anthem Policy, 'Won't Let It Silence Me'

PostedMay 25, 2018

Yesterday, the National Football League owners unanimously approved the new policy, which requires players to stand if they are on the field during the performance but gives them the option to remain in the locker room if they prefer.

The game operations manual will be revised to remove the requirement that all players be on the field for the anthem. "Obviously, we want to continue to work with our players and make sure they feel that their point of view has been respected".

"I know there's some discussion of keeping players off the field until after the anthem", he said during an owner's meeting in March.

"What NFL owners did today was thwart the players' constitutional rights to express themselves and use our platform to draw attention to social injustices like racial inequality in our country", Jenkins says. "Personnel who choose not to stand for the anthem may stay in the locker room until after the anthem has been performed".

Many fans criticized the players' plan, and all Steelers players stood on the field during the anthem for the remainder of the season.

"They did give us the option as far as guys wanting to stay in the locker room so that's going to be something guys are going to have deal with, if it's going to be a team thing where everybody stays in the locker room or if it's just a decision where everybody goes out and stands".

Trump was asked to respond to a tweet a day earlier from former Federal Bureau of Investigation director Comey, who had asked how Republicans would explain attacks on the Federal Bureau of Investigation and lying about its work to their grandchildren. I mean, the NBA's been doing it that way for 20 years and they haven't had an issue, right?

Vice president Mike Pence wasted no time claiming the NFL's decision as a victory for the administration on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of a news story on Twitter shortly after the announcement with the caption: #Winning. "I think the people pushed it forward", Trump told Fox News. They have tried to nip the anthem protest problem in the bud with this rule.

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